Oil Mafia

The Oil Mafia was an organized crime syndicate based in the Caspian Sea countries of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. The Oil Mafia was formed as a result of the capitalist reforms of the former Soviet republics, with corrupt officials, businessmen, and "thieves in law" amassing wealths of hundreds of millions of dollars through selling oil to Western countries. Samed Vezirzade, the Mafia's boss, was killed in a counter-terrorist operation in 2002.